NCLEX-PN
NCLEX Trainer Test 10 Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
Which of the following strategies would be MOST therapeutic as the nurse tries to analyze a bulimic client's eating habits and the circumstances that precipitate the client's eating problems?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: implementation, nurse is trying to analyze and understand what triggers the client's binging and purging activities, so therapeutic nursing intervention of assigning a thought/feelings/actions (T/F/
A) journal relating to client's eating behaviors will be most helpful to the nurse and therapeutic to the client; after this information is gained and reviewed, collaboration by the nurse and client on other strategies such as delay and distraction techniques, stress reduction, and developing a 'lifeline' in relation to eating behaviors will further benefit the client
Extract:
A patient is admitted with abdominal pain and nausea. The physician orders stool for guaiac times three days.
Question 2 of 5
The nurse asks the health care technician to obtain the stool specimen. Which of the following statements, if made by the technician, would require an intervention by the nurse?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Strategy: Each answer choice is an implementation. Determine the outcome of each answer choice. Is it desired? (1) easier to get specimen (2) doesn't need to be sterile container (3) correct-ordered to be collected over 3-day period (4) may cause false-positive reading
Extract:
Question 3 of 5
On a home health visit, an elderly client states, 'This neighborhood has really gone down. I feel like a prisoner in my own home with all the trouble out there.' Which of the following nursing responses by the nurse is BEST?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: assessing the basis for client's fears and encouraging client to talk about them is the first positive step
Question 4 of 5
The home care nurse instructs the wife of a client about how to perform a wet-to-dry abdominal dressing for her husband with an infected abdominal incision. The nurse should intervene in which of the following situations?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: contraindicated, remove dry so wound debris and necrotic tissue are removed with old dressing
Question 5 of 5
A client has an order for furosemide (Lasix) 40 mg IV push via a heparin lock. Which of the following nursing actions would be MOST appropriate?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: furosemide (Lasix) given IV push should be administered slowly over one to two minutes